Three Easy Appetiser Ideas

Ingredients

• baguette (Sliced; for crostini)
• olive oil (For brushing baguette and topping ricotta)
• blackberries (Fresh; some stewed for jam and some left whole for topping)
• brown sugar (For stewing with the blackberries)
• balsamic glaze (A little; for the blackberry jam)
• burrata (For topping crostini)
• honey (For drizzling)
• salt (To taste; for crostini and salmon filling)
• black pepper (To taste; for crostini, salmon filling, and ricotta)
• puff pastry (Cut into rounds)
• cream cheese (For salmon pastry filling)
• shallots (For salmon filling and fried ricotta topping)
• garlic (For salmon filling)
• lemon zest (For salmon filling)
• dill (For salmon filling and garnish)
• spinach (For salmon filling)
• smoked salmon (Flaked; for topping the pastry rounds)
• ricotta (For whipped dip)
• butter (For frying shallots)
• olives (Chopped; for ricotta topping)
• orange peel (For ricotta topping)
• pomegranate (For ricotta topping)
• crusty bread (For dipping)

Steps

1. 1

   For the crostini, brush sliced baguette with olive oil and bake until golden and crisp. The source does not specify an oven temperature or baking time.

2. 2

   Stew fresh blackberries with brown sugar and a little balsamic glaze to make the blackberry jam. No quantities or cooking duration are given.

3. 3

   Top the crisp baguette slices with the blackberry jam, burrata, fresh blackberries, a drizzle of honey, salt, and black pepper.

4. 4

   For the mini salmon en croûtes, cut puff pastry into rounds and indent the centers. Bake for 10 minutes, until puffed and partly golden.

5. 5

   Press down the center of each pastry round. Mix cream cheese, shallots, garlic, lemon zest, dill, spinach, salt, and black pepper for the filling.

6. 6

   Fill the indented pastry centers with the cream cheese mixture, then top with flaked smoked salmon.

7. 7

   Bake the filled pastries for a further 5–7 minutes, until golden. Finish with a little dill.

8. 8

   For the whipped ricotta, whip ricotta with salt and black pepper in a food processor. Spread it onto a plate.

9. 9

   Fry shallots in butter, then mix with chopped olives, olive oil, orange peel, and pomegranate.

10. 10

    Spoon the olive mixture over the ricotta and serve with crusty bread for dipping.

Notes

No ingredient quantities are provided. The source also does not specify the crostini oven temperature or baking time, or the time and heat level for stewing the blackberry jam and frying shallots. The transcript mentions the crostini take around 15 minutes, but gives no more precise timing.

Nutrition per serving

• appetizer
• party food
• festive
• vegetarian option
• baked
• no quantities provided